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PLAINS LIVING ON A MOUNTAINOUS SCALE Western State of Mind Creates a

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Lodge-Style, Lake-Front Residence

FROM THE EDITORS

SPACES putting the fun in functional A Plattsmouth Couple “Wows”

STATEMENTS

With Design Originality

Peter cales building Relationships

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STORIES FROM HOME

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ARCHITECTURAL STYLES Unblemished Beauty

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Deep Roots and Budding Potential

INDULGENCES

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A Track’s Trek Through the Garden Jerry Paladino’s Model Railroad

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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM OMAHA HOME

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"Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. " —Michael Josephson AN YOU BELIEVE 2016 is here? Does it seem like, as we get older, each year

goes faster than the one before?

What about all those New Year’s resolutions? Did we accomplish them, or are they added to this year's like some of mine? Those tasks that we just didn’t get done and will be the first on our list to tackle—good intentions, I say! I read the quote somewhere that said "Commit to doing less of some things, so you can do the important things better."

And speaking of another type of project, you might notice I do not have one in this issue. You might say I'm just giving myself some time to fuel up the ole creative tank.

In this issue we have some unique, beautiful spaces and homes from which to get plenty of inspiration. Sometimes a decorative piece can pull ideas in other forms to other rooms. Take bits and pieces and make it work for you and your home.

We also get to take a peek into where magic is made. Chip Davis has the perfect serene place to make his music amid rolling hills lots of grass and trees. A subtle reminder for me growing up on the farm in Iowa, well minus the beautiful wolves and postcard picture horses. You’ve got to love the Midwest!

We hope you and your friends and family find peace and have a safe, healthy, and happy new year!

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Statements words by Daisy Hutzell-Rodman / photography by bill sitzmann

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PETER CALES

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND FURNITURE

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ETER C ALES SITS on a comfortable couch and rests a

glass of orange juice on a coffee table. Nearby sit shelves and shelves of record albums, and atop and beside the albums sit record carriers made by Cales.

He created the table as a summer project while attending college.

The rustic, yet sophisticated, piece foretold his career.

“I alternated between fine arts and English in college [at Creighton], but I didn’t see a clear path between that and making a living,” Cales says of discovering how to meld fine arts and woodworking.

“My father always had a woodshop,” Cales recalls fondly. “I just decided to make furniture. I wanted to do something artistic that had a practical application.”

Cales worked part-time for noted Creighton Associate Professor of Sculpture Littleton Alston, who helped him obtain studio space and taught Cales about the process of building things. He became fascinated by the beauty of woodworking. It didn’t take long for him to realize that he belonged in the woodshop.

In 2009, he became a full time wood artist in launching his studio, Measure Cut Cut. Cales’ process of woodworking turns nature into refined beauty. He finds working out, and on, details meditative.

He finds inspiration in music, especially pop and rock ’n roll from the 1960s and 1970s.

Cales says. “I think it’s inspiring hearing something that someone put together perfectly. >

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< “I do a lot of furniture design, but I don’t identify as a designer because I think that could be offensive to people who went to school and studied it,” Cales says. “But I also have a hard time identifying as an artist.”

Along with hand-crafted wood pieces, Cales also sells a line of ceramic hot air balloons.

“I just love how it was the first form of flight, and so much scientific development went on through ballooning,” Cales explains. “My parents took us [Cales and his sister] to a hot air balloon international festival around 1990. It definitely left a mark on my brain.”

Customers won’t see a similar mass production of furniture.

“Furniture is furniture to me,” Cales continues. “It’s the process of making something for someone else. That’s why I’ve never done lines of furniture. There’s nothing personal about that for me.”

Personalizing pieces is vital to Cales’ craft. When he meets with clients he asks them about their lifestyle and what is important to them. He asks to hear stories, particularly those involving events or locations. From that meeting Cales selects materials from significant locations, particularly reclaimed materials when available.

“I like working with people and creating something that will be in their house for a long time,” Cales says. “It’s a reflection of my brief relationship with them.”

Designs are never repeated. Much thought is put into what will happen to a piece of furniture long-term. Cales wants his work to be retained, to perhaps be passed down to future generations, and he seeks clients who share his aesthetic and personal values.

Keeping these principles creates lasting relationships with the clients.

Cales’ love of playing and collecting record albums inspired these boxes.

“Most of the commissions I like I have made for people I ended up being friends with. They were relationship starters.”

Leaving a lasting impression—creating a lasting relationship— that’s the essence of Cales. OmahaHome Visit measurecutcut.com to learn more.

“I like working with people and creating something that will be in their house for a long time.”

-Peter Cales

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At Home words by Danielle Herzog / photography by Bill Sitzmann

HAZY SHADES OF WINTER MONOCHROME FOR ALL SEASONS

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Christian, Cayden, and Gina Bessmer

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HE GREYS AND whites of winter do not bother

Dr. Christian Bessmer and his wife, Gina.

In fact, they designed their home around the color (or is that color-less?) scheme.

Their story is colorful. They picked out a property at Beaver Lake, purchased land, and made plans to build their first home together. But life threw them a curve ball that left things less black-and-white.

In December 2013, Christian, 36, and Gina, 37, found out they were expecting their first child. After 12 years as a couple, they left their carefree lifestyle and settled down in parenthood.

They quickly realized that their original plan of building a home at Beaver Lake might not be the right fit. Their priorities were now changing and they found themselves thinking about school districts and being closer to family and friends.

The couple opted to build at Ashbury Farms development in Bellevue, a smaller development that allows them the more rural setting they desired.

“There won’t be more than 45 homes built here so it can keep that small community feel,” explains Christian.

The grey palette reveals subtle color changes, from the stone to the paint to the number on the house.

A visit to Street of Dreams inspired Gina’s idea of designing on a neutral plain. She also wanted an open floor plan for the kitchen, dining, and living room; granite countertops; and Jack-n-Jill bathrooms. Christian wanted a large garage for all his tinkering projects and “a shower that was just like a car wash.” >

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< Jack Gifford, design specialist at Advantage Development, made sure their desires were met. Each room embodies a monochromatic mindset and approach.

An invariable feeling starts when approaching the home. The contemporary design includes lots of right angles surrounded with paint the color of a nimbus cloud and light-colored stone on the face of the house.

The kitchen features curved white stone island countertops with smokey marbling that allow guests to see each other while sitting in the kitchen set against a backdrop of raven cabinets and minimalist lighting. Stainless steel appliances add luxury and also the barest hint of shimmer.

The main bathroom includes Christian’s human car wash, with multiple shower heads and a remote control water system.

The results were better than they imagined. There’s definite cool factor to it—a house with many unique aspects, including a hidden pocket-door in the kitchen that opens to a pantry on the right and hallway on the left, which in turn sends people toward a second entrance to the mudroom and garage.

Warmth is found in the bedroom, where hints of gold glimmer alongside a metal poster bed. In the master bathroom a Jacuzzi tub with a mounted television and heated backrest give a feel of being a guest at a luxurious hotel. >

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< The garage, at almost 1,500 square feet, obtains warmth from a hot/cold water supply. Christian’s play space includes elevated ceilings and enough room to store five vehicles. “It’s definitely my dream garage,” says Christian, laughing.

The outdoor space acts as an extension to the house with a living room, complete with sectional sofa, and soon-to-be kitchen right off the dining area. The in-ground pool spans the length of the backyard, its Mediterranean turquoise shocking viewers after seeing so many Russian blues. The serenity of this space continues with an alternating pattern of grass and river rocks.

The Bessmers are thrilled with how the house has turned out but look forward to eventually turning the unfinished basement into a game room—complete with bar and pool table. But not now. Knowing they are expecting their second child in April, now is about making memories as a family in a home they can call their own.

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A TRACK’S TREK THROUGH THE GARDEN JERRY PALADINO’S MODEL RAILROAD

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the flip of a switch, Jerry Paladino’s garden railroad roars to life. When not in use, the cars and engines live on shelves that line the walls of his garage. From there, they chug through a tunnel in the wall, out to the backyard and on to elevated tracks.

“I had to do a lot of talking to knock a hole into a brand-new house,” Paladino says. “My wife is very understanding.”

Trains run through Paladino’s blood. His own father was an employee of Railway Express Agency and Union Pacific, and Paladino fondly remembers riding the California Zephyr in the 1960s.

Today, rather than riding his father’s magic carpet made of steel, he operates N-scale models. Perhaps it was natural he became enamored with garden railroads when he was invited to see the layout of a track run by the Gold Creek Railroad. It included hand-cut ties, hand-spiked rails, and a painted background.

“It just kind of blew me away,” he says.

“It was just amazing. Museum-quality.”

Paladino started with his garden railroad hobby in the early 1990s. Indeed, garden railroading is a popular hobby across the country, and Paladino is a member, and serves as the current president of the River City Railroaders Club.

An outdoor railroad with tracks of brass and UV-resistant plastic ties curves through the garden. Trains with classic looks from U.P., Burlington Northern, and other railroads run along a track laid around the edge of a raised concrete planter. The planter, measuring 15 feet by 50 feet, houses a garden of miniaturized plants and model buildings.

The model buildings are both scratch- and kit-built and the layout features figurines of people and animals. There’s a water tower, a gazebo that lights up at night, and a golden spike where Paladino laid the last of the track.

Many buildings sport signage and name tags noting Paladino’s family members, including his wife and grandchildren.

It takes tender care for these trains to roll past houses, farms, and fields. Paladino can’t use weed killer for the health of the garden’s miniature evergreens, roses, chrysanthemums, and other plants. The trains can run in all weather and temperatures so long as they have traction and the rails are clean and clear, but the track requires rebalancing from time to time.

“You gotta trim, you gotta prune, you gotta pull weeds,” Paladino says. “There’s always something out there to repair.”

For Paladino, the building and construction is his favorite part of the hobby, although he does enjoy conducting the trains for his grandchildren, who in turn enjoy racing toy cars along the track.

Some enthusiasts like to make their tracks adjustable, but Paladino prefers to keep his permanent.

“I put the tracks and the main lines up against the outside edge of the layout,” he says. “It’s completely flat, there’s no grade to it at all.

That’s how I like it.”

One thing is certain—that constant clacking of the wheels on the tracks take him to far away places.

“I just turn it on and sit in a lawn chair and watch it run.”

And then the rhythm of the rails is all he feels.

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Spaces words by Carol Crissey Nigrelli / photography by bill sitzmann

PUTTING THE FUN IN FUNCTIONAL A PLATTSMOUTH COUPLE “WOWS” WITH DESIGN ORIGINALITY

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Clerestory windows help the space evoke a barn theme.

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IRST-TIME VISITORS TO the home

of Cory and Teri Wehrbein often let out an audible “wow” or “whoa” when looking up, around, and through the property. Located on an acre of land off Bay Road in rural north Plattsmouth, an area still confusing to MapQuest and GPS, the home elicits spontaneous utterances of amazement for its creative, distinctive qualities.

The white exterior of the U-shaped home catches the eye immediately, contrasting with earthtoned neighboring homes spaced generously along the street. A row of oblong windows rises above the roofline, giving the illusion of a twostory home, when, in fact, it’s a one-story design.

The windows, architecturally known as clerestory (pronounced clear story), catch the sun’s morning rays from the east and fill the white and gray interior with plenty of light and warmth during the cold Nebraska winters.

Columns of untreated cedar hold up the front porch’s metal overhang, while several cedar planks lie horizontally across the front window. More than an act of whimsy, the modern, external window treatment pays homage to Cory’s roots.

“I grew up on a dairy farm between Plattsmouth and Louisville,” says Cory, who, along with his brother, owns a landscaping and design company.

“Teri’s and my goal outside was to have a modernlooking farmhouse and the clerestory mimics a barn.” Looking around, Cory adds, “There’s a story to everything we designed.” >

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Spaces

Mila reads in solitude at the dining table. < The Wehrbeins’ story goes back to fifth grade, when they met. They married 15 years ago and have two children Mila, 9 and Micah, 7.

Their ideas mesh perfectly and the house they designed, with the help of architect Jeremy Carlson of Omaha, reflects their personality: warm, welcoming, and lots of fun.

Walking through the front door, the eye catches a family restaurant-style dining booth of light hickory wood across the large room, just off the kitchen. “One of our children’s cousins says, ‘This is like eating at Applebee’s’,” laughs Teri. The space is just as social as a neighborhood bar and grill.

The kitchen, dining room, and living room encompass one area.

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True to the Wehrbeins’ vision, the open-floor design with clean lines and vaulted ceilings, coupled with a modern, yet simple, décor, makes interacting with guests a breeze.

Windows on three walls add extra airiness and openness to a surprisingly boundary-free interior. Heck, even the dishes, cups, and glasses sit in full view on open shelves above the sink, an idea Teri grasped long before it became a more commonly accepted convenience.

The dining booth’s cool factor is surpassed only by the fireplace, which fills the entire north wall. Built from hundreds of interlocking pieces of hickory wood treated with four different colors of stain, the fireplace resembles a giant Tetris video game. There’s a story here, too.

“There's a story to everything we designed” -Cory Wehrbein

“We knew we didn’t want stone, so Doug Kiser [of d KISER design.construct] came up with the wood idea,” explains Teri. “He had all the pieces cut, had them all numbered, and just pieced it all together.” The fireplace won a top national award among entries from 1,600 woodworkers, and the home was featured in the 2011 American Institute of Architects' Home Tour.

A stairway next to the fireplace, the only steps in or around this “zero entry” home, leads to an unfinished basement, which the couple plans to renovate soon.

Oh, the possibilities…

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Doug Kiser's dramatic woodwork forms the backdrop as Micah, Cory, Teri, and Mila relax.

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Architectural Styles words by David Williams / photography by bill sitzmann

“One of the best examples of Spanish architecture in the middle west.”

- Omaha World Herald, 1931

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UNBLEMISHED BEAUTY (EXCEPT, OF COURSE, FOR THAT BULLET HOLE)

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ing architectural styles, we’ve covered such diverse genres as Jacobethan Revival, Art Deco, and Victorian, but deciding what the heck to call a home has never been much of an issue.

Until now.

This space was slated for “Spanish Colonial.”

Seems simple enough, we thought. But just to be doubly sure in assigning that moniker, we sent the photograph you see here to three different architects and asked them to chime in. We got three different answers, only two of which had the word “Spanish” in them.

And none of them were a flat, straightforward “Spanish Colonial.”

So let’s default to an Omaha World-Herald story from 1931 that called this home on North Happy Hollow Boulevard “one of the best examples of Spanish architecture in the middle west.”

A permit was issued in 1928 for the home now owned by George and Christine Greene.

It was built—for the then princely sum of $16,000—by noted architect Bert Hene, whose timeless mark was made all throughout Happy Hollow, Fairacres, Dundee, Country Club, and beyond. The space features a handsome library/music room and a 40-foot sunroom with broken marble and a tile.

While this beauty looks like something straight out of Sunset Boulevard (“All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”), it is the library that tells one of the home’s most intriguing stories.

The tile-roofed stucco home with arching windows was purchased in 1933 by Dana Van Dusen, a Harvard law school graduate who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1934. A former city attorney, he was then the general counsel of Metropolitan Utilities District.

On Sept. 29, 1947, a pair of prominent MUD officials were menaced by a former district employee.

A car driven by Personnel Director Earl Frederickson was forced to the curb by another vehicle at 18th and Cuming streets.

The disgruntled former employee climbed in Frederickson's car and threatened him.

A half hour earlier in Happy Hollow, a shot had been fired through a window of the Van Dusen home. The former MUD worker had no gun on him when he was arrested, and none were registered in his name.

The window has long since been repaired, but a bullet hole remains to this day on a shelf in the library…and Christine and George Greene have no plans to repair the blemish that speaks to the quirky history of their stately home. OmahaHome

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VINTON STREET

DEEP ROOTS AND BUDDING POTENTIAL words by Chelsea Balzer photography by Bill Sitzmann

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Capitol Bindery is also a longtime community business, and has provided book repair and restoration since 1929. The familyowned company is currently run by Kevin Brown, whose grandfather purchased it in 1953. Originally located downtown, the bindery moved to its Vinton Street location in 1984.

The historic Vinton Street neighborhood is a perfect example. Irish immigrants who came to work in the stockyards initially settled the area in the mid-1800s. A majority of residents now claim Hispanic heritage, many growing up with deep familial ties to south Omaha

And the Larry Ferguson Studio (photography) has long been a neighborhood anchor.

downtown, but the true identity of a metropolis is found in its neighborhoods.

As Omaha’s culture becomes more dynamic, its neighborhoods also evolve, growing more connected to the communities around them that develop distinct energies fusing history and potential.

The current vibe on Vinton Street reflects the addition of eclectic creative businesses. The rent is still low, and the buildings display unmistakable character.

The Apollon is one such new business.

Opened in 2013, the art and performance center is the brainchild of Ryan Tewell, who, along with a group of artists, developed the idea over a period of years while searching for the right location. The organization now produces original, collaboratively-built, interdisciplinary shows that appeal to a variety of ages and tastes.

The Works of Mary Zicafoose at Gallery 72

During this season, they’ll debut a life-sized, playable board game exhibit that should bring families out for an evening of surreal, uninhibited fun. A themed dinner is presented alongside the original entertainment, which is exactly the kind of unexpected charm Vinton Street delivers.

Not all of the business on Vinton Street display new signs. Some, occupied for decades, continue to draw regulars. Louie M’s Burger Lust opened in 1980 and has attracted Omaha burger lovers since. The Marcuzzo family still runs the joint, and their presence is wellknown among business owners and locals.

Affordable rent is only one reason business owners open shops on Vinton Street. Sisters Jennifer and Nelly Hernandez grew up two blocks from their new fitness center, Club Pura Vida. Jennifer says they simply saw the building become available and, with no previous experience running a business, decided to take a leap of faith. Because they had strong roots in the community, they felt confident others would support their idea.

Two months after launching, a Wednesday night dance class bursts with about 40 attendees, the place buzzing with laughter and loud music.

The club offers childcare during classes, and as many attendees are local, the kids seem to already know one another. Walk-in classes cost five dollars each, which includes a cup of pre-workout energy tea and a post-workout protein shake.

More than all that, though, the club captures the warmth of Vinton Street, combining small-town connection with big-city activities.

Jennifer affirms this supportive vibe with a large grin. “I love the people. We’re our own little town.”

While that may draw many people, others hope Vinton Street becomes a more integrated part of Omaha at large. >

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Ryan Tewell of The Apollon

“There’s not a ton of red tape. You can just get a couple of excited people together and start doing something.”

-Ryan Tewell

< John Rodgers, owner of Gallery 72, feels that the area lacks some essential attractions which would help bring in more traffic. His art gallery, featuring local, regional, and national work, opened in the area primarily because he loved the building.

Vinton Street looks anything but ‘cookie cutter,’ and while that made the move worthwhile, he believes the location inconveniences some patrons.

“It’s a bit out of the way, and you have to sort of be a destination to bring people here. I’d like to see more professional spaces open, but the trend of this neighborhood is up.”

Also adding to the destination appeal of the neighborhood is the new gallery space, Project Project, which was featured in last month’s issue of this magazine.

Everyone seems to agree on the feeling of support Vinton Street provides. As a part of the Deer Park Neighborhood Association, local representatives meet regularly to discuss issues of importance to the community.

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Oscar Duran, the association’s current president, is working to create a network of communication between business owners and locals. One of the ways they do this is by partnering with local organizations to host family-friendly, affordable events that bring together residents of the area.

Ryan Tewell raves about the neighborhood association, adding that “the upside of being in a not-as-developed neighborhood is that there’s not a ton of red tape. You can just get a couple of excited people together and start doing something.”

Combining this kind of accessibility with a rich history and a bevy of interesting things to do means it’s no wonder Vinton Street is one of Omaha’s up-and-coming locales. OmahaHome Visit deerparkomaha.blogspot.com to learn more.

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PLAINS LIVING ON A MOUNTAINOUS SCALE WESTERN STATE OF MIND CREATES A LODGE-STYLE, LAKE-FRONT RESIDENCE

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HILE DRIVING TOWARDS Waterloo, Nebraska, Jana Wheatley

came upon a sign reading "Live a more fluid life,â&#x20AC;? touting a coming residential lake community to be named West Shores. She longed to live in nature. Taking in the lake, the beach, and empty plots, she envisioned the Colorado lodge-style home she ended up building there. >

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“It's worn but it shows it's lived in, that people are having fun and it's not a museum. I want people to enjoy themselves here.”

-Jana Wheatley

< She and her now-ex bought the lakefront property in 2004. She served as general contractor for the build, subbing out jobs. Working with budgets and subs was old hat, as she owned a grounds management business with her then-husband.

She describes the resulting four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 6,000 square-foot house near the western limits of West Dodge Road as "comfy, rustic, chic," adding, "We always kind of had an idea about what we wanted.

I like simple. I don't like foo-foo."

Covenants prevented her from building with logs so she went with an exterior of cedar shingles and stone, and an interior with wide plank pine floors and ceilings, hickory cabinetry, granite counters, and variegated stone. The plaster walls are finished in a soft Texas leather. The rooms conform to her desire for "big, open, flowing spaces with natural light." The living room, dining room, and kitchen open onto each other, and light from multiple windows brighten and soften the space.

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"It's worn but it shows it's lived in, that people are having fun and it's not a museum. I want people to enjoy themselves here.â&#x20AC;?

The living room has an unimpeded lake view through sliding glass doors that lead onto a south-facing deck running the full width of the house. Her bedroom opens onto the deck and its 180-degree view.

"There's nothing like watching the sunrise, and the sunset, and the geese flying over," she says.

Her bathroom features a free-standing deep tub and a tall enclosed shower. The bathroom and kitchen plumbing fixtures are Industrial Age antique-inspired.

The floors everywhere are warmed by an in-floor water heating system.

Her love of nature is expressed in a mammoth antler horn chandelier fixed high above the living room. A slightly smaller antler art piece hangs from the ceiling above the staircase, connecting the main floor living area and the lower level rec area, where a miniature horn fixture crowns the billiards table.

The mantles above the two fireplaces continue the horn theme.

"It just says Colorado to me," she says.

A hand-wrought iron chandelier sets off the kitchen island.

Her favorite space is a kitchen nook she calls "my little Indian corner" for its Native American wall art and traditional furniture designs.

Southwestern-style pots and paintings add decorative flourishes.

The lower level offers more lake views.

"The house is like a frame to look outside and that's what I end up doingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gazing outside."

In the last 10 years she's added a son and lost a husband but she still has her home.

"Can you tell it's a labor of love? It's a piece of me.

It's my dream. I'm having my Colorado right here."

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Feature words by Lindsey Anne Baker / photography by Colin Conces

STORIES FROM HOME CHIP DAVIS

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HIP DAVIS IS picking me an apple. He’s stand-

ing on a small stepstool in a small copse of trees on his 150-acre Ponca Hills property, and he’s looking for the perfect red apple. It’s the first year in a while the apple trees have fruited, he says—one of his pilots, who also farms, thinks the temperatures might have been structured just right this year. Davis comes back to the golf cart I’m sitting in, which he drove to the trees, which we’re going to keep driving as soon as I put this perfect red apple—and it is pretty perfect —in my bag for later.

This is the first time I’ve met Davis, but I feel like I know him, a little. The Mannheim Steamroller and Fresh Aire founder has soundtracked every Christmas I can remember, and quite a few family road trips besides, so it seems somehow right that this Nebraska icon is giving me a ripe fall fruit, taking me on a little drive, introducing me to his on-property tree farm and his horses and his pet wolves.

I mean, what else does one do with the king of new-age Christmas music?

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Ghoster awaits a treat from homeowner Chip Davis.

“I’m going to show you my critters,” he says. On the way, he tells me about his garden, where he plants eggplant and, sometimes, berry bushes. We pass an observatory and several pastures, and as we approach three horses, they come running. Ghost, a dapple gray, is pals with one of Davis’ wolves, he says, a friendship that inspired a trilogy of tales written by Davis and a film-writer friend, possibly to be released next year.

“Hey you, Ghoster,” Davis says. “I’ll come back with apples.

Don’t you worry.”

The wolves, in a separate seven-acre fenced-in area, “are big puppies, but they’re really, really nice,” Davis says. Appropriately, Ramses, a white wolf, is carrying a horse ball—his favorite toy.

These stories all come before we get to Davis’ house, which is why I’m here, and these stories are as good an introduction as any I could’ve hoped for.

Yes, there’s a large swimming pool with a waterfall, and a guest house, and the main house, designed by Davis and Omaha architect Bob Torson 30 years ago. The nearly 10,000-squarefoot home has onyx and walnut floors, and in the center, there’s a 44-ton fireplace that carries the house’s weight—Davis’ attempt to mimic the fundamentals of castle building. There are photos of Davis with George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. There’s also more conventional green carpet and traditional furnishings.

But mostly—inside and out—there are stories. >

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Chip Davis in His Home Studio

Ramses, a white wolf, patrols the grounds of the estate.

< There’s a curved staircase behind the fireplace, installed almost as an afterthought—when the house was being built, Davis and Torson relied on a ladder to get from floor to floor and “completely forgot about a stairwell.” Now, it’s graced with a custom-curved whale photograph Davis got from photographer Bob Talbot.

There are Egyptian replicas—a sarcophagus, a death mask of Ramses II, royal chairs, and one stunning five-panel Egyptian pictograph Davis scored in a trade with one of the creators of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. The use of Davis’ music for art—or art for art, as it were.

Across the main room are a harpsichord, a clavichord, and a toy piano built by Davis’ father. There are antique wind instruments passed down through his family since the Civil and Revolutionary Wars and there are kid-sized ukuleles and Russian instruments collected from Davis’ travels.

Above them, there’s a series of paintings

by Gilbert Williams, and they’re all representative of Davis’ ideas and themes for Fresh Aire albums.

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“Nature plays a big part in what I do...Trying to bring nature from the outside in is a cool, symbiotic thing with the house.”

-Chip Davis

“All my stuff’s got some kind of significant meaning,” Davis says.

We keep walking, and he points out art from people he knows—Terry Redlin— and people he doesn’t—Omaha’s Tom Mangelsen. He shows me film memorabilia he’s been able to get while on tour, and an American Indian headdress he saw in a gift shop and thought was beautiful (he also used to wear it around the house on occasion).

It’s a whole collection borne of Davis’ life and career —a span from Sylvania, Ohio, to Omaha, from writing ad jingles to selling more than 40 million records—housed in a space where he also shows me as many photographs of his three children, and the basement stage where they used to put on their own concerts for the neighbors.

His children still have instruments in his basement studio, which has big windows framing the farm outside.

"I've got a lot of windows," he says. "Nature plays a big part in what I do." >

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The property's original home now acts as the guest house. < We go back upstairs.

"Here's just a simple little thing," he says. "See the green carpet?"

He points to the carpet leading to the open door we'd come through to get inside the house. There's a breeze blowing.

"See how it continues on to the green grass? he says. "Trying to bring nature from the outside in is a cool, symbiotic thing with the house.

"The lifestyle here in Omaha is what I'm used to," he says. "I'm just from a small farm town in Ohio.

I live on a farm now with my horses and wolves.

I just re-roofed [the house], just repainted it.

New caption goes here I think I'm good for about another 20 years."

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Transformations is a regular feature of Omaha Home that spotlights a recent project by a local ASID interior designer. The story and photos are provided by the designer. Homeowners’ names may be withheld for privacy.

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flowing spaces…this 10,000 square foot home has been completely transformed. The foundation and exterior frame remain, but the entire interior has been reconstructed. New floor plans were created within these constraints based upon the homeowner’s needs, desires, and existing furnishings. Along with builder Choice Homes, architect Ron Hackett, and the homeowner, we worked together to reconstruct this home into a modern take on a natural and rustic-inspired design with hints of old world tradition. Not one detail was overlooked. >

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Transformations

< Hand-scraped wood floors and beams invite guests into the entry and move throughout the entire home. The curved staircase with custom ironwork, glass accents, and tiledetailed risers flow through the three levels.

The great room ceiling was raised to the second floor and larger windows were installed to open the home. A two-sided stone fireplace with a floating limestone hearth opens the great room to the hearth room and raises the eye to the exposed distressed beams. An additional roof was integrated to incorporate a covered back patio where a built-in bar, grill, and fireplace formed an outdoor living area.

A color palate composed of rich copper, red, turquoise, and mink streams throughout the home. Bronze plumbing and lighting selections were made to compliment these tones and add touches of timeless charm. >

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< The stone encasing the dining room and kitchen range wall, along with custom wall finishes, add warmth to the space. A distinctive bar-height and angle within the kitchen island inspired unique granite and stone selections. Pedants with hammered amber glass and metal detail in combination with an antique mirror backsplash are featured in the dinette to add a tinge of an old world feel.

Just beyond the great room a striking powder bath uses Backdraft granite that continues from the counter to the ceiling.

The drama continues with the unique starburst wall details and pebble floor.

The master bathroom and bedroom are still contained in traditional elements but with a hint of flair. The lavish master bath features custom cabinetry, wall finishes, and tile designs. Marble tile with glass detail flows up the entire whirlpool wall. Polished nickel, quartz, and artistic glass features add bling, taking the space to the next level of richness. >

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